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Origins and evolution of texteditors Vi and Vim (22. Sep. 2023)
Gustavo Pezzi is a university lecturer in computer science and mathematics and runs the educational platform Pikuma. At the beginning of August, the developer of the text editor Vim, Bram Moolenaar, passed away. Pezzi had already paid his last respects to...

Amiga Games That Weren't: Fatal Mission (20. Sep. 2023)
As the website "Games That Weren't" reports, "Fatal Mission" was an ambitious project started by Ola Zandelin and Robert Hennings in 1993: "a cinematic style adventure in the lines of Another World, but with bitmap graphics instead of vector style one". ...

Platform games: Updates for all four parts of Boxx series (18. Sep. 2023)
The developer 'Lemming880' has released updates for the three parts of his Boxx remake series as well as for the fourth part. All four parts now use the same Scorpion engine version. The changes in the overview: Version 1.01 of Boxx 1 remake: Menu...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 16.09.2023 (17. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 16.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: goattrk2_2.76.lha Audio/Tracker Official tracker-like C... gt2stereo_2.77.lha Audio/Tracker Tracker-like C64 stereo... Morphoza_1.3.lha ...

Creating slideshows/Videoplayer: RNOSlides for all Amiga ystems (17. Sep. 2023)
The developer 'jPV' has added another tool to its already extensive portfolio of RNO applications: RNOSlides is a programme for creating slideshows (MJPEG/AVI format), which can play them in real time (YouTube video). Furthermore, it can also play videos ...

Amiga emulator: vAmigaWeb - Display and keyboard adjustments (16. Sep. 2023)
vAmigaWeb is an Amiga emulator for the web browser or a Progressive Web App (PWA) based on the Amiga emulator vAmiga for MacOS. The new update also makes full use of the notch or dynamic island area in the display of the iPhones. Furthermore, developer...

MorphOS: ENCORE again updated several demos (16. Sep. 2023)
Just like at the beginning of the year, the demo and game developers Encore (among other 2D shooter Fortis) has improved several MorphOS demos and adapted them to the new version of the engine: Morphever, Morphobia, Morphilia, Morphiller and Morphoza have...

AmigaGuide magazine: Issue 11 of "WhatIFF?" published (15. Sep. 2023)
"WhatIFF?" is an English language Amiga magazine in AmigaGuide format which in his eleventh issue again offers a demo version of a game: "Aeon Legends" from BitBeam Cannon. The other topics: Reviews: ImageFX 4.5 OmniPort A1200 AmigaKit RED LEDs ...

Platform game: Boxx 2 Remake 0.1 (13. Sep. 2023)
As with parts 1 and 3 already, the developer of this platform game series, 'Lemming880', has now switched "Boxx 2" from Backbone to the Scorpion Engine, while 'Koyot1222' improved the graphics....

Aminet uploads until 09.09.2023 (10. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 09.09.2023 to Aminet: SteMarRegAMOSSources.lha dev/amos 398K 68k 10 AMOS sources+exes by Stefa... asm-kurs_stashofcode.lha dev/asm 1.2M Assembly course, German REDPILLGameCreator.lha dev/misc ...

Platform game: Update for "Ooze: The Escape" (08. Sep. 2023)
The ZX Spectrum port "Ooze: The Escape" (video), released in August, has received a minor update: The developer speaks of "game-play tweaks" to some of the screens....

Linux: Browser SeaLion V32.4.0 (05. Sep. 2023)
'wicknix' has released version 32.4.0 of the Linux browser "SeaLion", including a version for Linux PPC that runs under distributions like MintPPC, Void or Fienix 6 on the AmigaOne X1000 or X5000. The new version is a major development update, further imp...

Virtual Enemies Devlog #3 - Language system finished (04. Sep. 2023)
The developers of the upcoming strategical Virtual Enemies have posted another entry to their developer's diary, this one describing the localisation of the game....

Apollo team working on a port of "Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood" (04. Sep. 2023)
Willem Drijver from the Apollo team informs us that the team is working on porting the Realtime Strategical Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood to the Apollo hardware. The game was published in 2002 for Windows and ported to MorphOS by e.p.i.c. / Runesoft ...

Aminet uploads until 02.09.2023 (03. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to Aminet: DCAPSPhonk.lha demo/aga 768K 68k Dreamolers Phonk! (Revision 2... DCAPSIntro64kB.lha demo/intro 123K 68k Dreamolers Intro64kB (Revisio... ADV-ITA.lha d...

OS4Depot uploads until 02.09.2023 (03. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to OS4Depot: libfdk-aac.lha dev/lib 14Mb 4.1 Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library libspeex.lha dev/lib 2Mb 4.1 A free codec for free speech libxvidcore.lha dev/lib 1...

MorphOS-Storage uploads until 02.09.2023 (03. Sep. 2023)
The following files have been added until 02.09.2023 to MorphOS-Storage: LUA-MUI.lha Development/LUA LUA-MUI.lha AmiArcadia_30.10.lha Emulation A Signetics-based machi... PDF2JPG_1.1.lha Office...

New articles on Obligement website (02. Sep. 2023)
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet. News from Jul...

Linux: Quake mods under Fienix (01. Sep. 2023)
Casey Cullen, developer of the Linux PowerPC distribution Fienix, which is also available for the AmigaOne X1000 and X5000, among others, has started a sub-project called "Quasco", with which one can play various Quake mods from within Fienix without havi...

Video tutorial: Creating a vertical scrolling demo with Scorpion Engine (30. Aug. 2023)
Erik 'earok' Hogan has posted on YouTube a recording of a Twich stream showing how to create a vertically scrolling demo from scratch on the Amiga (and Sega Mega Drive) using the Scorpion Engine. As the developer explains, the Amiga has no native suppo...